With domestic overnight and international tourism both performing well, total overnight spend (domestic and international) reached $116.6 billion across the year. This represented an increase of 11% or $11.2 billion, the largest annual growth recorded over the past 10 calendar years.

Australians aged 15 years or more took 10.1 million outbound trips in 2018. While this represented solid growth of 4%, it was the second year in a row where growth in domestic overnight travel has outstripped the rate of increase for overseas travel.